Futures of Enlightenment poetry / Dustin D. Stewart.
2020
PR555.F88
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Title
Futures of Enlightenment poetry / Dustin D. Stewart.
Author
Stewart, Dustin D., author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191890413 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
PR555.F88
Dewey Decimal Classification
821.509382362
Summary
This text offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain also brought bold new arguments for the immateriality of spirit and evocative claims about an imminent spirit realm. Protestant religious writing was of two minds about futurity, swinging back and forth between patience for the resurrected body and desire for the released soul. This ancient pattern carried over, the work argues, into understandings of poetry as a modern devotional practice.
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This text offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain also brought bold new arguments for the immateriality of spirit and evocative claims about an imminent spirit realm. Protestant religious writing was of two minds about futurity, swinging back and forth between patience for the resurrected body and desire for the released soul. This ancient pattern carried over, the work argues, into understandings of poetry as a modern devotional practice.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 20, 2020).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780198857792
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